The Romney camp's creative accounting techniques are a specialty. Consider the super PAC Restore Our Future, supposedly independent, but run by former Romney aides.
The cereal marketing worked, the cereal didn’t. I probably would have been just as healthy skipping breakfast and eating pizza and banana monster shakes.
Working Americans can live within their means, with the government setting an example for them — because it must.
‘Robo-signing’ is a federal crime, yet no bank or banker has even been charged. Until we put a CEO in jail, the banking barons will never learn their lesson.
THE ISSUE Steps are being taken to allow SUNY colleges to share presidents.
OUR VIEW Similar investigation should be underway to explore shared administrative duties at local school districts.
In a country where corporations can be people, people who aren’t corporations don’t stand a chance.
Advocacy groups are calling on the Super Congress to deliberate in the open and make decisions based on what’s best for the American public, not powerful special interests.
THE ISSUE The state Civil Service Employees Association on Tuesday approved a new five-year labor contract.
OUR VIEW The deal is welcome break from the head butting that has overtaken the country regarding public employees.
The tea people’s drumbeat about the Founding Fathers is either bogus or ignorant. Had our forebears not gathered in the spirit of compromise, there wouldn’t have been a United States.
Politicians offered debt-ceiling proposals that avoided the details of cutting budgets or increasing revenues. They suggested commissions that would make the hard choices for them.
THE ISSUE The Buffalo Bills are tuning up for another season at their St. John Fisher training camp.
OUR VIEW The Bills represent a common bond in the west- and central-New York region — and we can use those.
Why isn’t there more awareness that kindness is what it's all about: Kindness to animals, to one another and to Mother Earth? I believe this is the worship God appreciates most.
The purpose of the Tea Party Express tour is to get Washington to wake up to the fact that America can no longer grow the intrusive federal government.
The Autism Center at Ontario ARC sees the need every day for the enactment of this bill and we commend Senator Nozzolio for his ongoing commitment.
THE ISSUE The region’s farmers are suffering through one of the toughest growing seasons in years because of wet weather in the spring and arid conditions in July.
OUR VIEW A bad year for crops is bad for all of us, as farming is a big part of New York’s economy.
The slash-and-burn methods used by Republican leadership in the debt fight are distressingly undemocratic and seriously undermine the remnants of this republic.
No one knows if this is a new bear market. But just asking the question opens some doors and shuts others. Just like a garden, it is time to trim, prune, weed and hedge.
Eisenhower, Nixon, Regan, Bush I — every successful Republican president of the last 100 years raised revenues in order to pay for things that the country needed.
Drivers just are not aware; so cyclists, beware. For your safety and reputation, follow the rules of the road.
It’s been that kind of campaign for the Republican presidential nomination: Some candidates are just getting in, others are already on their way out.
